requin-taupe commun

/\ʁə.kɛ̃ top kɔ.mœ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“requin-taupe commun” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
19
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espèce de grand requin (Lamna nasus) du littoral et de surface marine, au museau pointu (rostre), à 5 paires de grandes fentes branchiales, au dos bleu-noir ou gris.

Key facts for requin-taupe commun
PropertyValue
Headwordrequin-taupe commun
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.kɛ̃ top kɔ.mœ̃\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “requin-taupe commun” sits in French frequency

requin-taupe commun falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for requin-taupe commun is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɛ̃ top kɔ.mœ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de grand requin (Lamna nasus) du littoral et de surface marine, au museau pointu (rostre), à 5 paires de grandes fentes branchiales, au dos bleu-noir ou gris.".

No misspelling variants are generated for requin-taupe commun in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is requin-taupe commun, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-N---T-A-U-P-E- -C-O-M-M-U-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de grand requin (Lamna nasus) du littoral et de surface marine, au museau pointu (rostre), à 5 paires de grandes fentes branchiales, au dos bleu-noir ou gris.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "requin-taupe commun"?
"requin-taupe commun" is spelled R-E-Q-U-I-N---T-A-U-P-E- -C-O-M-M-U-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.kɛ̃ top kɔ.mœ̃\.
What does "requin-taupe commun" mean?
As a noun, "requin-taupe commun" means: Espèce de grand requin (Lamna nasus) du littoral et de surface marine, au museau pointu (rostre), à 5 paires de grandes fentes branchiales, au dos bleu-noir ou gris.
How do you pronounce "requin-taupe commun"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "requin-taupe commun" is \ʁə.kɛ̃ top kɔ.mœ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "requin-taupe commun" come from?
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Using “requin-taupe commun”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is R-E-Q-U-I-N---T-A-U-P-E- -C-O-M-M-U-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ʁə.kɛ̃ top kɔ.mœ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.